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There are four kinds of lies.

Verisign Statistics:

-- 84 percent of Internet users who have tried Site Finder said that they preferred the service to receiving an error message.
-- 65 percent of Internet users reported that they found the service easy to use while 61 percent said that Site Finder enabled them to find what they were looking for.
-- 53 percent of Internet users said that Site Finder improved the Internet (an additional 35 percent of users thought it improved the Internet somewhat).

How many of those surveyed speak a language other than English as their native language? Remember, sitefinder is exclusively available in English.

PS: That particular press release quotes a user talking about 404 responses. 404 is an error generated by a server when you reach it. It doesn't have terribly much to do with Sitefinder.

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Adam:
I think it would be interesting to see stats on how sitefinder's guesses at the URL the user intended worked out -- the click through on those suggestions. Were those URLs known live websites or just registered names?

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